Tara Marynowsky

b. 1979 Sydney, Australia
Lives and works in Sydney, Australia

Tara Marynowsky’s art practice embraces painting, drawing, collage, video and installation. She investigates the uncanny and uses wry humour to explore personal emotions and feelings associated with womanhood. With influences drawn from archival artefacts, European fables and art history her subjects are riddled with nostalgia and themes of cultural belonging and identity. She questions westernized beauty within this context. Working in a fragmented modus she often creates multiple works which when accumulated result in the form of an installation or series. Her work has an unmistakable hand-made aesthetic and she often uses watercolour to render her intimate works on paper.

In 2002 Marynowsky received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (honours) at the College of Fine Arts, Sydney. Her work has been exhibited in international group exhibitions including Hors Pistes at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2009) and Invitation on Paper at Chi Chi Potter Gallery, Copenhagen (2012). She has held several solo shows in Sydney and Melbourne and is currently undertaking an artist residency supported by the City of Sydney.

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Artworks

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Arrangements #6

Green Goddess #1

Green Goddess #2

Green Goddess #4

Volta #9

Volta #7

Volta #8

Volta #2

Volta #6

VOLTA

VOLTA #2

VOLTA #3

VOLTA #4

VOLTA #5

VOLTA #6

Volta

Arrangements #1

Arrangements #2

Arrangements #5

Untitled

Brain Rain

Brain Rain #2

Brain Rain #3

Brain Rain #4

Brain Rain #5

Brain Rain #6

Brain Rain #7

Brain Rain #8

Destinatarie

Rosen

Berlin

Venus Of Venus #3

Venus Of Venus #1

Venus Of Venus #2

Baba Yaga

Heads Up

Lonely Number

Chocky Void

Thousand Miles Eye

Godmonster

The Trees

Smoke Screen Mystery

'Missing Persons Jockey Club'

'Lady in Egg'

Tales

'Time After Time'

Tales #2

CV

Education

2002

Bachelor of Fine Arts, UNSW, College of Fine Arts, Sydney

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2014

Venus of Venus, Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney

Open Studio, Art Month Sydney

2011

Wallflower, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne

2010

Gods and Monsters, Chalk Horse, Sydney

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Selected Group Exhibitions

2013

Still Life, Delmar Gallery, Sydney

Rue de Belleville, Galerie Pom Pom, Sydney

Rumble, Wellington St Projects, Sydney

Linden Postcard Prize, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne

2012

Invitation on Paper, Chi Chi Potter Gallery, Copenhagen

Still Life, Delmar Gallery, Sydney

2011

Still Life, Delmar Gallery, Sydney

Ten Degrees of Separation, Poimena Gallery, Tasmania

Transcendental Freakout, Remote (online)

2010

The Shilo Project, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney

Chalk Reindeer, Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney

2009

Chalk Reindeer, Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney

Post-flux, Maison des Auteurs asbl, Bussels

Tara Marynowsky, Danny Morse & Tim Moore, Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney

Hors Pistes, Pompidou Centre, Paris

Hard Party, Sydney Harbour Art Cruise, Sydney

2008

Chalk Reindeer, Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney

Helen Lempriere Travelling Arts Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney

Great Whites & Tan Lines & Tales, Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney

Videoformes 2008, Clermont Ferrand

2007

Ecoutez les Zimages, Reunion, Pacific Ocean

Panoramic Perturbations, 'a little blah blah’, Ho Chi Minh City

International Festival of Video art of Casablanca, Casablanca

Videoformes: Prix De La Creation Video, Clermont-Ferrand

Sin City Pompidou film program, ACMI, Melbourne

2006

SynCity, Presented by d/Lux media arts, Australian Centre of Photography, Sydney

Video Easy, University Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand & The Hart Centre for the Arts, Beijing, China

The Harries National Digital Art Award, QUT Arts Museum, Brisbane

The Late Sessions: Video Art at the Movies, Greater Union Cinemas, Sydney

The Late Sessions, Melbourne Art Fair 2006, Project Room, Melbourne

Videoformes 2006: Projections Paralleles, Clermont Ferrand, France

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Grants / Awards / Residencies

2014

Artist In Residence, Wis(c)h, Supported by City of Sydney

2012

Linden Postcard Prize (2nd)

2011

Best Sydney Artist Award, FBi Radio, Sydney (Nomination)

2010

Fraser Studios Artist Residency, Queen Street Studios, Sydney

Rising Star Award, Cosmopolitan Fun Fearless Female Awards (Nomination)

2008

Helen Lempriere Travelling Arts Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney (Finalist)

2006

Australia Council Inter-Arts grant, RUN_WAY

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Collections

Art Bank

Freshwater Place

Private Collections

Selected text and publications

Frost, Andrew, Venus of Venus, the art life, May 16, 2014

Tara Marynowsky, Juxtapoz Magazine (online), April 2013 (artwork)

Interview with Tara Marynowsky, Women Artists: The Interview Zine, (New York), Feb 2013

Please! Magazine (France), Birthday Issue, curated by Leslie David, June 2012 (commissioned artwork)

Fbi Radio Interview, Canvas, Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:28 PM

Tara Marynowsky, Helter Skelter Runway Magazine: Issue 17 Return, 2010 (commissioned artwork)

Frost, Andrew, Ten Rising Visionaries Make Their Mark: Next Big Things, Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 8-14, 2010

Fulton, Adam, Neil Diamond Tribute not such a dotty idea, Sydney Morning Herald, July 2, 2010

Stein, Millie, Gods and Monsters, The Blackmail, July 2010

Frost, Andrew, Smart Art, Australian Art Collector, Issue 45 July-September, 2008

Tovey, Josephine, Open Gallery, The Sydney Morning Herald, April 19-20 2008

Jasper, Adam, MOP vs. Chalk Horse, Time Out Sydney, April 23-29, 2008

Frost, Andrew, Screen Tests, The Sydney Morning Herald, November 24, 2007

Frost, Andrew, Intelligent Dolphins: From Metaphysical TV to Remix Culture, SynCity Catalogue & DVD, d/Lux Media Arts, 2006

Lewis, Clare, The Late Sessions, Artlink, Vol 26, No 2, 2006

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Tara Marynowsky

Artworks

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VOLTA

Group show

Brain Rain

Melbourne Art Fair 2014 - Stand: E101

Venus Of Venus

Gods and Monsters

Tara Marynowsky & Tim Moore & Danny Morse

Chalk Reindeer 2008

Great Whites & Tan Lines